Sun Lode Claim

Occurrence in Pima county in Arizona, United States with commodities Molybdenum, Copper
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10026816
MRDS ID M000407
Record type Site
Current site name Sun Lode Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.88124, 31.72513 (WGS84)
Elevation 1387
Relative position 16 MI NNW OF PATAGONIA IN MADERA CANYON AREA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Santa Cruz(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Hopkins(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fort Huachuca(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Nogales(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Santa Cruz(hydrologic unit)

Santa Cruz(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Coronado National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Pima
United States Arizona Santa Cruz

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 019S;020S 014E;014E 35,36;01,02 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • CORONADO NATIONAL FOREST ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1964

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Molybdenum Primary
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Molybdenite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.88124, 31.72513

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • In Quartz Along Fault & Veins In Diorite

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOLOGY MAY BE SIMILAR TO THAT OF DANIELS CLAIM (RECORD M030415), MCCLEARY PROSPECT (RECORD M030552) SUN LODE CLAIMS MAY BE A GROUP NAME FOR THESE PROSPECTS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Old Baldy District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KING, 1969, ABM BULL 180

  • Deposit

    ABGMT FILE DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS REPORT WAS TAKEN FROM RECORD M000407 OF JAN WILT IN MOLYBDENU M FILE, CONTACT PERSON T.G. THEODORE, USGS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1983 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Authoritative Arizona resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.